worldline

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n. Alternative spelling of world line.

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On the other hand, Dowe's answer is that the worldline of the moving shadow is the worldline of an object that does not possess charge, while the ˜worldline™ of the segments of shadowed plate segments is not the worldline of an object.

We can retain the general relativistic representation of physical space-time as a 4-dimensional manifold, equipped with a metric tensor of Lorentzian signature, but for each worldline & #947 representing a physical system with a mind supervening upon it, we can introduce a subjective time tensor.

The conformal factor & #937 blows up towards the end of the worldline of a mental system, providing such a system with an infinite lapse of subjective time, even though, to an external observer, a finite time lapses before the death of that system.

Yes, the Captain was moving along a geodesic and you might say that geodesics are longest paths, but that would only be correct in the infinitesimal sense: any infinitesimally small deviation from Captain's geodesic worldline will reduce its length, so it's a local maximum.